Climate Change Ecology

• Interactions between C₃ and C₄ plants in response to global climate change and the consequences for herbivore population dynamics and ecosystem functioning

• Warming impacts on plant-herbivore-predator tri-trophic interactions and the community structure

• Effects of climate-driven phenological/geographical shifts and the resulting temporal/spatial synchrony/asynchrony on the population dynamics of interacting species (novel interactions and trophic mismatches)

• Comparing the performance and fitness of environmental generalists vs. specialists under changing climates

• Modeling the role of environmental variations/fluctuations and extremes in shaping biological responses

• Species responses to warming from individual behavior and physiology to population dynamics and community structure: linking theories and models at various levels of biological organization

• How environmental changes alter predator-prey interactions via consumptive vs. non-consumptive effects

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